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Sink Or Swim
A hard working youth is kidnapped after witnessing a local squire set a house on fire.
The Long Winding Road of Harry Raymond
Raymond is remembered by historians today for surviving a bomb placed in his automobile by a secret squad of the Los Angeles Police Department. After the bombing, newspapers across the country ran photographs showing him stalwartly smoking a cigarette while doctors removed shrapnel from his legs. This brazen attempt on his life would transform Los Angeles, leading to the recall of the mayor, the termination of many Los Angeles Police Department leaders, and the imprisonment of members of a secret LAPD police squad. The assassination attempt would also fuel the growth of Las Vegas, to where many LA underworld figures migrated afterward.For some, Harry Raymond would go down in Los Angeles hist...
Sink or Swim; or, Harry Raymond's Resolve
"Sink or Swim; or, Harry Raymond's Resolve" by Horatio Jr. Alger. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Sink Or Swim
When his father is killed in a railroad accident, Harry Raymond must care for his mother and sister. When Harry's mother discovers an old land warrant belonging to his deceased father, the local squire attempts to defraud her and cheat the family of their rightful property. Harry later witnesses this same squire setting fire to his own property in order to claim the insurance money and is kidnapped and shanghaied on a ship bound for China.
Pensions, Politics, and the Elderly
An historical exploration of the U.S. pensioner movements from the late 1920s through the 1950s, and the insights they offer present-day policy analysts and researchers.
Integration, Measure and Probability
Introductory treatment develops the theory of integration in a general context, making it applicable to other branches of analysis. More specialized topics include convergence theorems and random sequences and functions. 1963 edition.
Sexual Blackmail
Sexual blackmail first reached public notice in the late eighteenth century when laws against sodomy were exploited by the unscrupulous to extort money from those they could entrap. Angus McLaren chronicles this parasitic crime, tracing its expansion in England and the United States through the Victorian era and into the first half of the twentieth century. The labeling of certain sexual acts as disreputable, if not actually criminal--abortion, infidelity, prostitution, and homosexuality--armed would-be blackmailers and led to a crescendo of court cases and public scandals in the 1920s and 1930s. As the importance of sexual respectability was inflated, so too was the spectacle of its loss. C...
